I need some help from the experts. We stake the locations for the construction crews to dig and place transmission poles, however we often have to make multiple trips out to the sites (and sometimes they are a long ways away) to restake. Sometimes people are the culprits, other times cows and some are unsolved mysteries. Are there in tips or better products that would keep lath in place. Thanks in advance for the help.
MD
Use a peg in the ground at the actual position, much harder to remove accidentally.
Then a stake (lath) beside it to make it easy to find. Mark what numbers you need on the lath. Easy to replace or remark, doesn't matter if it gets knocked down etc etc...
Set a rebar, nail, etc. for the corner then set a t-post right beside it and tie the stakes to the t-post with flagging. I did this staking gas well locations and it worked great. The cows will rub against the post but probably won't be able to knock them down completely. Most land owners (unless determined) will not mess with trying to pull them up by hand.
Corey
When you are 8 yrs old
Man, those lath, come pre flagged, and they work great in a sword fight, and having some extra swords is never a bad idea. I mean, ya gotta walk a ways, to get to where they are found, and the writing on them is sorta like a Chinese Tattoo, but, hey, a sword is a sword!
Drive a "T" Post and forget it.
Set 60d spike (nail)
Wooden stake driven near flush
Any other rod or other object that would take alot of effort to pull up
Florescent Paint on ground, grass or other surface on and around stake
Tall lath is only useful to see from a distance, tomato stakes, garage sale stakes, road rage points.
At approximately $1 per lath (adding what it costs to paint, flag, carry to job and set in the ground) they are something people will gather to use for other reasons
I stopped putting lath along boundary lines and use something metal (tpost, electric fence post or metal pipe post) that can be driven to a depth to stay and will still be there after run over.
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At one job that was a problem, and we always set hub+lath. The hubs were staying, so we wrote the point number or station and offset on the hub, set the lath, and published a cut sheet. Then if the lath disappears, the info is still there.
> ...Are there [any] tips or better products that would keep lath in place....
Let it be the contractor's problem. Charging for restaking sure cuts down on the stake loss. Kids get blamed, but mostly it's construction traffic that takes your stakes.
That is a good idea.
Most of the pipeline work we do the client (P/L company) only wants to stake for construction once. Any time after that the client bills the construction company for any re-staking we have to do. P/L company doesn't care who is at fault (kids, cows, aliens, bad equipment operators, etc).
Re-staking can be a real pain.
Paint an "+" on the ground where the stake is set in addition to what others have stated. This is inexpensive and quick.
